Black Sea. Current state of the ecosystem and ways to increase the fishing value

Abstract

The Black Sea, as a target region for the 150th issue of Proceedings of VNIRO was not chosen accidentally. And we had several reasons for this choice. It was precisely the Black Sea from where began the history of systematic hydrobiological studies on the territory of the Russian Empire. This count can rightly be held since the moment in 1869, when in Moscow, at the Second Congress on Naturalists and Doctors Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay, called to create marine research biological stations. The Congress encouraged him and took a decision to create the Sevastopol Biological Station that was opened in 1871. Over the past nearly century and half general hydrobiological investigations in the Black Sea region, and fishery studies in particular, have overcome a lot of difficulties, but never stopped, despite all the troubles in the complicated history of our state... Collected papers in this issue of Proceedings of VNIRO are only a part of scientific results which have been achieved in the course of research work in the Black Sea region in recent years.